Facebook Is Worth $50 Billion

8 Charts That Show Why Facebook Is Worth $50 Billion
01 Facebook Reaches 70% of US Internet Users. That's Up From 48% In Aug. 2009

Image: Imran Khan, JP Morgan

Goldman Sachs made it official: Facebook is worth $50 billion.
And coincidentally, J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan put out his annual report on the state of the Internet earlier today, which has some statistics to explain why.
You knew that Facebook was big, but exactly how big might surprise you. More after the break...

02 Users Spend 10% Of Their Time On Facebook

Image: Imran Khan, JP Morgan

 Facebook surpassed Yahoo this year, but it's also way ahead of Google, where users mostly come to search and then leave

 03 More Than Half Of Facebook Users Visit Weekly

 04 Facebook Is Driving Way More Traffic Than It Used To

 Image: Imran Khan, JP Morgan

Its influence is particularly growing in e-commerce: traffic from Facebook to Amazon is up more than 3x from a year ago.

05 Facebook Connect Is Used By More Than 250 Million Users Per Month

Image: Facebook

This expands Facebook's reach way beyond its own site.

06 Heavy Facebook Users Are Addicted To Games

Image: Imran Khan, JP Morgan

This chart of game usage shows how Facebook isn't just a site, but a platform--like Windows for operating systems and Google for Internet search advertising. This is also great news for social gaming companies like Zynga, Playfish, Crowdstar, and Playdom.

07 Facebook Is Even The Number-Four SEARCH Site Worldwide

Image: Imran Khan, JP Morgan

08 Internet Ad Spending Is Still Catching Up With Time Spent Online

Image: Imran Khan, JP Morgan

This is good news for all online properties who rely on advertising, but particularly Facebook, where users spend more time than at any other site.

09 Now, Check Out Facebook's Move Into Email

Image: Robert Scoble via Flickr

Via - Link

Electronic Guitar without Strings

Typical owners Kitaro will be studio musicians, DJs and performers of electronic and psychedelic mood music, the usual players and musicians are just obsessed with the idea to the creation, retrieval and transmission to others is really a new experience. More after the break...

Kitaro - a new type of guitar. It is 100% digital, which allows guitarists to create a new wonderful world of electronic sound and expressiveness - on stage and in studio. With a built-in polyphonic synthesizer and a touch screen with multitouch, Kitaro allows guitarists to fully express their ideas and extend possibilities of electronic music.

Retail price Kitaro in the U.S. will be 849 dollars, Kitaro special series will be worth 2,899 dollars.

Kitaro is equipped with multifunction touch screen, MIDI interface and a polyphonic synthesizer with different effects. Worked to the smallest detail musicians for musicians Kitaro will allow musicians to find and create unlimited abundance of sounds.

What is the meaning of a Kitaro, Digital keyboards and percussion instruments have long been given musicians the new world of sounds. Digital guitar for a long time absent from this list, since the nature of the guitar makes it difficult to create and manage electronic sounds. Creating a Kitaro, Michael Zarimis, obsessed engineer and musician from Sydney, Australia, overcame this obstacle and allow guitarists to join the world of digital sound.

Via — Link

Gestures in different Countries

Traveling to another country can be difficult. You might be surprised, but if you show a typical American or European gesture of "goat" or «that rocks» (forefinger and little finger pointing up, middle and ring fingers are pressed to the palm and thumb brushed aside), which can mean belonging to such a musical style like rock, then in Italy, the gesture you tell someone that their wife is cheating on them!

(Don't Get Me Wrong – The Global Gestures Guide). In this regard, in anticipation of the Christmas holidays in the UK have released the book "Do not get me wrong - a global guide sign» (Don't Get Me Wrong - The Global Gestures Guide). To mention a few examples, after the break...

"Good" or "excellent" in the UK, U.S., South Korea, South Africa

"One": France, Poland, Switzerland

"The vulgar insult": Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq

"What is it?" Or "What do you want?" In Italy

 "Little" or "somewhat" in the Congo

"Beautiful" or "good" in Turkey

"One moment" in Egypt

"Two" in Belgium, Liechtenstein, Netherlands

"Eight" in China

The "bad" in Italy

"Excellent" in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Switzerland

"The vulgar insult in Brazil

"Get out of here!" In the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands

"Let's here!" In Ghana, the Philippines, Vietnam

How time flies

Interesting collection, children's and adult pictures glued. More images after the break...

How to make the roads in Holland

Tiger-Stone is a Dutch paver laying machine that can produce brick roads. Paving bricks are put onto the angled plain. As the electric crawler moves forward along a sand base layer, all the stones are packed together by gravity. More images after the break...

Via - Link